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A new NEC is on tap, with major changes in how the document presents the material, even changing to a new full-page format.
This analysis of the changes represented in the 1999 edition of the National Electrical Code (NEC) covers only the most significant of the many changes. Some of these changes are indeed major, including two new articles, (with another article deleted) and others are included for minor editorial reasons. Major or minor, if you are involved with the particular subject matter the most minor change can assume major proportions in unexpected ways. Every proposal was made for a reason, and this magazine article is no substitute for careful study of the code itself.
Sec. 362-6. Multiple conduit or cable entries to a wireway and enclosing the same conductor (No. 4 or larger) must be spaced at least six times the trade diameter of the largest entry apart.
The point of this section has always been to ensure there is adequate space for deflection of conductors without damaging insulation. That's why, when you deflect conductors more than 30 degrees in a wireway, you have to be sure the minimum distances in Sec. 373-6 are available. This change also addresses the related case where an installer enters one side of a wireway and then exits the other. Now, the wireway is being used as a pull box. If it were a pull box, Sec. 370-28(a)(2) would require a minimum raceway separation distance of six times the nominal raceway diameter, and now the same requirement applies to the wireway.
It remains true the minimum width of the wireway follows Sec. 373-6 and not the six-times rule in Sec. 370-28(a)(2). This admitted compromise reflects the fact that usually you have the opportunity to lay long lengths of conductors into a wireway section; working with the longer lengths is easier to do and stresses the insulation less.
Sec. 364-6(b)(2). For vertical busway risers penetrating two or more dry floors in other than industrial occupancies, now you'll have to provide curbing around the penetrations. The curbing has to be at least 4 in. high, and it can't be more than 12 in. from the floor opening. Other electrical equipment must be located so it won't be damaged by liquids retained by the curb.
Background: In high-rise construction, busway risers often pass through janitor's closets with floor-level slop sinks and hoses. Normally the floor penetration would be firestopped, in accordance with Sec. 300-21. Depending on the configuration of the firestopping, however, floor liquids might easily reach and flood the vertical busway. Also, other electrical equipment in the room suitable for ordinary locations shouldn't be on or near the floor, where it might get flooded by whatever fluids get held back by the curbing. This rule may or may not be meaningful depending on whether the floor is horizontal relative to any gaps under the door(s), etc.
This change has to be read in its larger context. Sec. 364-6(b)(1) only permits floor penetrations through dry floors, and both paragraphs apply to this work. Don't infer that because this paragraph refers to dry floors, you could do something different or less restrictive on a wet floor. The first paragraph also continues the rule requiring unventilated, totally enclosed busways up to the 6-ft level to prevent physical damage.
Sec. 370-23(d). New rules cover box supports in suspended ceiling cavities. The box can't be larger than 100 cu. in., and the installation must comply with Sec. 300-11(a). The support wires must be fastened at each end so as to be taut within the ceiling cavity.
Background: For many Code cycles, this section and Sec. 300-11(a) have been at odds over the support rules for boxes in ceiling cavities. Sec. 300-11(a), ever a moving target, has allowed boxes on support wires in some form and under some conditions, but also under rules that have been changing from cycle to cycle. In contrast, the rules in Sec. 370-23 always required rigid support, and suspended ceiling support wires flunk that requirement.
What happened: This cycle, CMP 9 mostly, but not entirely, unloaded the problem. It basically said the box support had merely to comply with Sec. 300-11(a). It did, however, add two requirements that would be unique to enclosures covered in Sec. 370-23. First, the support wires used to support the enclosure need to be taut. Second, the enclosure can't exceed 100 cu. in., which coincides with the other size thresholds in Sec. 370-23. As long as CMP 3 doesn't expressly allow slack support wires or boxes over 100 cu. in., the old conflicts won't return.
The exceptions now clearly apply to conduit bodies over 100 cu. in., and they also address "E" fittings for the first time, clearing up areas of confusion.
EC&M tip: Don't confuse the wording of the exceptions addressing "E" fittings ("conduit body constructed with only one conduit entry") as applying to other conduit bodies such as LBs with only one conduit support in use. With the sole exception of the "E" fitting, the rules continue to disallow any support of enclosures by a single conduit entry.
Sec. 370-27(a) Ex. This new exception allows up to 6-lb wall-mounted fixtures (not exceeding 16 in. in any dimension) to be hung on device boxes with no fewer than two No. 6 or larger screws.
Background: The basic rule requires boxes used to support fixtures to be "designed" for this purpose. Evidence of such design, per UL, is found on the smallest unit shipping carton, which must be marked "FOR FIXTURE SUPPORT." Those boxes have 8-32 or larger screws. That made what has become a routine use of device boxes to hang small "peanut butter jar" fixtures technically in violation of the Code. The parameters in the new exception are taken from Sec. 410-15(a), which allows a lamp screw shell to support a small fixture. If the screw shell of a light bulb can support such a fixture, surely two screws can as well.
However, the 1998 UL Electrical Construction Materials Directory (the "Green Book") has just complicated the issue. For the first time, it allows device boxes, whether new or old-work ("intended to be installed in an existing structure"), metallic or nonmetallic, to support smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, and fixtures, not over 15 lb, and without any restriction as to wall or ceiling applicability [emphasis supplied]. In view of the panel action this may be revised. But until then, it has official recognition.
Since it basically declares them as having been adequately designed for the support of up to 15 lb fixtures in any orientation, it effectively supersedes the restrictions on weight and orientation on device boxes. That statement by UL moves device boxes into compliance with the main rule. Therefore, the exception, being permissive, ends up a nullity with respect to device boxes. However, you should continue to apply the conditions in the exception, even to device boxes, and even though they are more restrictive. The UL product directories change once a year, and this one may promptly get back in line with the NEC.
Art. 370, Part D. A new part of Art. 370 now covers "Manholes and Other Electric Enclosures Intended for Personnel Entry." The scope of the article (Sec. 370-1) was broadened accordingly. An industrial exception has been included to allow continued use of the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) for those applications.
What happened: This new part of Art. 370 melds the requirements in Sec. 323 of the NESC with applicable requirements in the NEC. The result is relatively complete coverage of electric enclosures that function similarly to other enclosures within Art. 370, with the principal exception being that we work inside them. With the increasing deregulation of utilities and ever-changing distribution systems for electric energy, electric manholes and subsurface vaults are increasingly the domain of premises electrical systems and not the electric utilities. Please refer to our Engineer's book if you need more complete section-by-section coverage of this part of Art. 370.
Sec. 373-5(c) Ex. A new exception provides comprehensive rules for cable entries through a raceway extending into a cabinet.
What happened: Now you can use a nonflexible raceway sleeve between one-and-a-half and 10 ft long to entrain cables with entirely nonmetallic sheaths (including Type UF, but not Type MC cable with a nonmetallic jacket, for example) into the top only of a surface-mounted panel. The raceway must extend directly above the enclosure and not penetrate any structural ceiling. You need to plug the end with approved material (that is, acceptable to the inspector, which could be duct seal or even fiberglass insulation). You also need to secure raceway at its outer end, and the cables within 1 ft of that end. The jacket must be intact through the sleeve and into the enclosure at least a quarter inch. The same outer end needs a fitting to reduce the opportunity for abrasion, and the fill restrictions in Chapter 9 apply.
Background: This convoluted exception addresses a common practice in many areas of the country, and vehemently resisted in others. The usual application is a commercial establishment with block walls and a hung ceiling, where the general wiring method is Type NM cable. The idea is to put the panel on the wall, run a neat raceway sleeve through the suspended ceiling, and run the cables down. The only alternative in the prior Code was either to attach each cable to the panel individually and then box in the mess, or to nipple a wireway section above the ceiling and make the transition in that. The rules that finally emerged in this Code represent the compromise outcome of intense discussions extending over several cycles.
Sec. 380-9. Now you need to ground switch yokes whether or not the faceplate is metal. The only exception, generally recognizing a nonmetallic faceplate, is a very limited one for applications with no equipment ground available. Former Sec. 250-43(d) Ex. 2 and Sec. 430-144 Ex. 2, which used to allow lined covers for snap switches, have been deleted.
Background: The requirement reflects a simple reality, namely, that unqualified end users change out plastic plates for metal ones without permits or inspections, and the NEC has to anticipate that outcome.
EC&M tip: Don't confuse the grounding requirements for switch yokes with those for receptacles. All you need is the mounting screws in the case of metal boxes; you don't need "self-grounding" switch yokes, etc. Similarly, you don't need to remove the cardboard screw-retention washers. The self-grounding provisions of Sec. 250-146(b) [1996 NEC: 250-74 Exception No. 2] only apply to receptacles. Receptacles, while in use, are a link in the branch-circuit equipment grounding return path, and the yoke grounding connection is critical if it is being relied upon. This is not true for switches. Note also that dimmer switches are expressly included in the new requirements. The panel was aware of reports of an attempt to reclassify dimmer switches as other than snap switches, and wanted to be sure the requirement would continue to apply to dimmer switches.
Sec. 384-14. Power panelboard has been defined for the first time; and the lighting and appliance branch-circuit (LABC) panelboard was slightly redefined to accommodate some new protection rules.
Sec. 384-16(b). New rules for some smaller power panelboards enhance the protection required for them. If they are other than service equipment and have circuits of similar size to LABC panelboards, they will require individual protection as well.
What happened: First, the definitions: an LABC is, implicitly as before, one rated 30A or less and employing a neutral connection; and an LABC panelboard is one with more than 10% of its circuit positions connected to LABCs. If 10% or fewer of its circuit positions so qualify, then it is a power panelboard.
The individual protection rules for LABC panelboards haven't changed. What's new, however, is that for a power panelboard with more than 10% of its circuit positions rated 30A or less, it must have individual protection, unless it is part of service equipment. Please refer to our Engineer's book if you need more detailed information on this material and its history (which goes back about 65 years).
Sec. 400-8 Ex. The exception now defers to the provisions of Sec. 364-8 in defining the acceptable practice for attaching cords to a building surface.
Sec. 364-8 has very complete coverage of attaching cord drops from a busway to building surfaces, including the industrial exception that allows extensive use of cord or bus drop cables.
Sec. 410-11. This section has been revised to allow either two-wire or multiwire circuit conductors supplying a fixture to pass through its wiring compartment by right, without necessitating a separate listing for through wiring.
Although this is how the product standards have been judging the wiring compartments, many will find this modification counterintuitive. Identification for through wiring sounds like something that would apply to a branch circuit passing in and then out of the wiring compartment, whether or not the fixture is connected to it. Nevertheless, the testing laboratories have been making a contrary assumption for years, so there's really no reason not to make this change. The concept of "through wiring" in a form that requires listing recognition only applies to additional circuits that aren't part of either the fixture supply circuit or one of its companions in a multiwire circuit.
Sec. 410-15(b). Light poles used to route supply conductors within them are being used as a raceway, and must meet the appropriate rules, e.g. system separation in Chapter 7.
The prior wording never mentioned the magic word "raceway" as applicable to the actual inside of the pole, thereby leaving in doubt such provisions as Sec. 725-54(a)(1), which generally disallows Class 2 circuit conductors from being run in a power raceway. The drawing shows one way to meet that other requirement.
Sec. 410-56(g). Receptacles are now prohibited from being backfed through an energized attachment plug; use flanged inlets, etc. with male blades instead.
Background: This change should end a very common misapplication of attachment plugs and receptacles. When people try to arrange for standby portable generator supplies to buildings or structures, sewage lift stations, etc., they commonly use a receptacle as the receiving device. This guarantees the output on the standby generator will need to be through an attachment plug, which will have its blades energized while the generator is running, whether or not it is inserted into the receptacle.
Sec. 410-67(c). The minimum tap conductor length has been reduced from 4 ft to 18 in. On the literal text, however, the box still has to be at least 1 ft from the fixture.
The substantiation for this pointed to current recessed fixture designs that have tap conductors in the 18-in. range running from the fixture compartment to the prewired branch-circuit wiring compartment. Why should such taps have to observe a 4-ft minimum length, as required in the previous Code (and every preceding Code going back to 1940)? Meanwhile, the proposal didn't change the minimum box separation part of the requirement, namely 1 ft, although very few prewired fixtures have anywhere near that degree of separation. If they did, the minimum tap length would need to be at least 2 ft or longer.
EC&M tip: Ignore this entirely. This doesn't make sense. This section doesn't have anything to do with prewired fixtures suitable for normal branch-circuit wiring connections. The branch-circuit wiring compartment of a prewired fixture isn't an "outlet box" that has been "placed" (a field wiring requirement) as described in this rule. Due to evolving requirements for thermal protection, together with market forces, no fixtures to which this section applies are still in production.
Background: This change proves absolutely that we are so far from the original concept for this rule, even the panel no longer has any idea why it's in the Code. The rule dates from the 1940 NEC, and it has to do with establishing a cold lead so the fixture heat wouldn't reach the branch circuit conductors. Before the advent of thermal protection and prewired recessed fixtures, you ran a 4 ft to 6 ft lead in greenfield with Type AF or other high-temperature fixture wire from the lamp compartment to a box at least 1 ft away. The resulting loop of raceway made transmission of heat to the box impossible.
The beginning of the end came in the 1990 NEC, when Type AC or MC cable got added in, in spite of the fact that neither cable assembly had high-temperature conductors, and could not possibly be used for this purpose. Now, we describe a tap that isn't a tap covered by the Code to a box that isn't the box described in the Code. The panel should either find a use that corresponds to today's market and write a proper rule, or, more likely, delete it.
Art. 422. The article has been completely reorganized, with only very few of the old section numbers remaining the same.
Sec. 422-16(b)(1 and 2) [formerly Sec. 422-8(d)(1 and 2)]. Waste disposers, trash compactors, and dishwashers are only permitted to be field connected with a cord and plug where the manufacturer identifies a flexible cord as suitable for this application in the installation directions.
EC&M tip: This looks straightforward, but it isn't. In the case of disposers and compactors, the product standard requires the manufacturer to provide a cord connection kit and installation instructions, but only if the manufacturer chooses to allow for a cord connection. This may turn out to be a significant factor in the product selection decision, so be certain the owner of general contractor understands the issue.
In the case of dishwashers, there is a more significant problem, at least in the short term. The product standard is silent on cord connections, because the Code always addressed the question. As this is written, UL is preparing to add generic provisions in the guide card information on dishwashers allowing for the various flexible cords mentioned in the 1993 NEC (the last listing of specific types) as acceptable. That should prevent the effective removal of the long-standing allowance to cord-connect these appliances. UL expects this to stay in place for awhile, perhaps until the standard can be revised to add parallel requirements as those for compactors and disposers.
Note, however, the guide card revisions won't take effect until June of 1999. Until then, it will be a technical violation of this rule to cord-connect a dishwasher. By way of indicating this was unintended, a related change allows cords added in the field to measure the 4-ft maximum length to the rear plane of the appliance, just as OEMs have been able to do under the product standard.
Sec. 424-44(g). GFCI protection is now required for all electrically heated floor systems in bathrooms, hydromassage bathtub, spa, and hot tub locations, if the floor covering is conductive.
The word "conductive" in this context clearly means something more than metal or aluminum foil. Table 110-26(a) Condition 2 implicitly classifies tile and masonry as conductive in mandating they be considered as grounded surfaces. Therefore, although this is a judgment call, applying this rule to tile or other masonry floor seems appropriate. Note: This rule applies to an area, not a specific room. It also applies, for example, to a heated tile floor around a spa dropped into a corner of the master bedroom.
Sec. 430-6(a)(1) Ex. 3. For listed, motor-operated appliances with horsepower and full-load current ratings, now you can size circuit elements on the basis of the full-load current rating instead of taking the horsepower rating through the Art. 430 tables.
Background: Many appliances come with horsepower ratings that are patently absurd, intended to sell the product rather than conveying useful information. Sizing conductors based on these values rapidly results in extremely oversized conductors. This is a particular problem in applying Sec. 210-23(a).
Under the literal text of the prior wording, you had to take these "horsepower" ratings through tables at the end of Art. 430 to determine circuit protection and conductor sizing. This resulted in a perverse safety hazard because the circuit protection ends up larger than ever intended. It also created some absurd situations in the field. Garage door openers are often a classic example of the problem.
Consider a listed 5.3A garage door opener that says "1 peak horsepower" (Table 430-148: 16A). The literal text of the prior Code required a 20A individual circuit because of rules in this Article. Sec. 210-23(a) also forbids such loading on a lighting circuit. The listing assures the current draw on the nameplate is correct, and now we can rely on that to engineer the rest of the circuit.
Sec. 430-43. This section has been rewritten to clarify it only addresses an overload device that could restart a motor automatically after tripping due to overload.
This would include thermal protectors in motors that automatically reset when the motor cools down. Restarts after power failures, etc., are beyond the scope of this section, found in Part C of the Article, which covers motor and branch-circuit overload protection.
Sec. 430-52(c)(3) Ex. 1. The provisions of the exception allowing even higher trip settings for Design E motors than those allowed for other motors have been modified to include "Design B energy-efficient motors" on the same basis.
Some of the nuisance-tripping issues affecting Design E motors also affect these motors. There are, however, some other issues involving correlation that were never addressed. For example, Table 430-152 hasn't been correlated. Therefore, you can protect the design B motor from 0% to 800% by the table, and from 1100 % to 1700% by the exception, but not 800% to 1100%.
However, there is a far more substantive correlation issue. When the Design E allowance went into the 1996 NEC, it went with hefty derating requirements for controller sizing [Sec. 430-83(a)(1)], and disconnect sizing [Sec. 430-109(a)(1) and -109(f)]. The reason was the higher locked-rotor currents involved with Design E. The new Design B allowance in this section was motivated by the same concerns. Yet, the panel, without explanation, failed to correlate this new allowance in other parts of the article. This needs to be reviewed in the next cycle.
Sec. 430-102(a) Ex. 2. A disconnecting means for a group of coordinated controllers that drive several parts of a single machine or piece of apparatus (more descriptive wording than the old "multimotor continuous process machine") need no longer be mounted on the machine as long as it is in sight of the controllers. In addition, the controllers need no longer be adjacent to each other.
EC&M tip: Although this change allows for much greater flexibility in arranging equipment to control these large machines, be careful not to assume that because the controllers are visible from the machine, and the disconnect is also within sight, that the disconnect will be in sight of the controllers it disconnects. The drawing, on page 60, shows an example of where that would not be the case. This doesn't create a Code violation on the current literal text, but it does take this exception to places it has never been before.
Sec. 430-109(a)(6). A listed manual motor controller, additionally marked "Suitable as Motor Disconnect" and installed between the final branch-circuit ground-fault and short-circuit protective device and the motor, now qualifies as a motor disconnecting means. For a 2 hp or smaller stationary motor, operating at 300V or less, this device may be used at any point in the circuit as a disconnect; provided it has the requisite horsepower rating.
These devices don't have the spacings required by product standards for full-fledged disconnect switches, but they say "off" and "on." Moreover, they have been widely, and erroneously, assumed to have been usable as disconnecting means. The solution represented in these changes is to provide additional testing. For the sizes beyond those allowed for snap switches already, insist they only go in the circuit on the load side of the final branch-circuit and ground-fault protective device. You can use the smaller sizes (rated for stationary motors, 2 hp and 300V or less) the same as snap switches, except they are limited by their horsepower ratings instead of the 80% of full current restriction for snap switches.
Sec. 450-3 has been completely reorganized into two easy-to-use tables. This dramatically improves on what had been one of the most convoluted and confusing sections in the entire NEC.
Sec. 450-13(b). The allowance for 50kVA or smaller transformers to be placed in certain hollow spaces has been modified by dropping all reference to "fire-resistant" spaces. Instead, they must meet the separation-from-combustible-materials requirements in Sec. 450-21(a) and the ventilation requirements in Sec. 450-9.
Spaces don't have fire ratings; only partitions have those. Furthermore, even if you inferred the former rule applied whenever the space over the ceiling had walls and a ceiling qualifying as fire-resistant, the ceiling panels probably didn't. Therefore, true fire-resistant hollow spaces have been far and few between. The new wording is much more workable.
Sec. 455-6(b). The manufactured phase conductor supplied by a phase converter must be identified in all accessible locations with a distinctive marking.
The color or method isn't specified, although the proposal submitter suggested using the color yellow. This rule is important because Sec. 455-9 prohibits connecting single phase loads to the manufactured phase. You need to know which conductor to stay away from. Remember, Sec. 455-2 defines the manufactured phase as the conductor originating at the phase converter and having no solid connection to either of the single-phase input conductors.
Sec. 460-8(c)(1) Ex. A separate disconnecting means isn't required for a capacitor connected on the load side of a motor controller; this is liberalized from the prior restriction of being on the load side of the running overload device. This is useful because it allows omission of an independent disconnect for the capacitors, but at a point where they still aren't being connected to the load terminals of the controller. If the capacitors are connected at that point, the corrected power factor has to be accounted for in sizing the overload relays, per Sec. 460-9. Although technically well justified, that rule complicates the use of standard overload relay tables to the point of frequent misapplication.
EC&M tip: Don't confuse this issue with providing separate overcurrent protection for capacitors, under Sec. 460-8(b)(1). That protection remains a requirement unless you are on the load side of the actual running overload protection. There was a battle during the prior cycle, ultimately resolved on the floor of the Annual Meeting in favor of not changing that requirement.
Sec. 480-8(c). Working space per Sec. 110-26 and measured from the edge of the battery rack must now be provided about "battery systems."
EC&M tip: Some of these systems involve significant voltages, although individual cell voltages don't run much over 2V. This is a controversial change, because the telephone industry has more than 30 years experience with a 30-in. clearance rule. You may run into many industrial installations that used the same clearance, based on the same standard. If all voltages on a given rack don't exceed 60Vdc, then Sec. 110-26(a)(1) Ex. 2 gives the inspector, by special permission, the authority to reduce the clearances. You may need to explore this option, particularly if modifying an existing installation.
Art. 490. Equipment provisions of former Art. 710 have been relocated into Chapter 4 in this new article: "Equipment, Over 600 Volts, Nominal."
Sec. 490-35(b). The rule has been rewritten and its exception clarified as allowing instrument or control transformers and space heaters to be in high-voltage compartments of metal-enclosed power switchgear without additional access restrictions beyond those that apply to the high-voltage compartment generally.
This change clarified whether: 1) the intent of the rule was to allow access to space heaters and instrument transformers without going through interlocks even though they are in a high-voltage enclosure; or 2) the intent was simply to allow such equipment in the enclosure, but with interlocks and the isolating position still required for access because a high-voltage enclosure is involved. This has been unclear since the 1978 NEC, when these provisions originated. The answer is: Only the generally applicable access restrictions, such as the locked-door rule in Sec. 490-35(a), apply to this particular type of equipment.


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Ivory Coast humanitarian response woefully underfunded
$200m funding gap remains for humanitarian crisis following months of conflict, says Oxfam
On the day Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is officially inaugurated in front of heads of state from around the world, more than 300,000 people remain displaced from their homes within the country and in neighboring Liberia, and they are in dire need of assistance.
Months of violence have caused a severe humanitarian crisis, yet the UN appeals remain only 35 percent funded – with donors providing $200 million short of the amount needed.
In Ivory Coast, the relief response is only 28 percent funded, with $120 million still needed to support more than 200,000 displaced people who remain displaced, whose homes and farms have been destroyed or who are too afraid to return home.
In neighboring Liberia, the response is only 42 percent funded, with more than $80 million still needed to support more than 135,000 Ivorian refugees who are still living in camps or with local families. Between 200 and 400 people continue to arrive daily.
"The crisis is far from over," said Oxfam's Regional Humanitarian Coordinator, Philippe Conraud. "There is an urgent need to improve the conditions of displaced people in Liberia and Ivory Coast, and to support those returning home to rebuild their lives. Only with a significant increase in funding from the international community will these needs be met.
Food is a particular concern. In Liberia, the majority of refugees continue to live with host communities, and scarce resources are running low. Oxfam assessments show that many families have been eating only once per day and others are forced to eat the seeds they will need for their next harvest. Four months since the launch of the first emergency appeal, thousands of refugees have not received food aid and the needs of local families hosting them have not been addressed.
In Ivory Coast, reports suggest that in many areas the last harvest was significantly disrupted by the conflict, while many of those returning may have missed the opportunity to plant crops for the coming year.
"Ivorian refugees continue to arrive in Liberia every day," said Conraud. "Many of the people we speak to have spent weeks and months hiding in the forest, surviving on roots, leaves and fruit. They are arriving here tired, scared and in urgent need of assistance.
"There are many challenges ahead for the new government in the Ivory Coast but a priority has to be the urgent humanitarian needs of people who have been living in unacceptable conditions for months now."
Oxfam has launched a response aiming to provide life-saving water, sanitation and food to more than 100,000 people in western Ivory Coast, one of the worst hit areas of the conflict, and is working in Liberia's Grand Gedeh and Maryland regions, where over 80,000 refugees are residing.
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> Oxfam's humanitarian response to Ivory Coast crisis
Notes to editors
- More than 135,000 refugees remain in Liberia (UNHCR emergency registered).
- More than 200,000 people remain homeless in Ivory Coast, a number that is likely to be a significant underestimate as the majority of people are living with local families rather than official sites.
- The largest displacement camp is hosted by the Catholic Mission in Dueokue, with 27,000 people registered there.
- Funding figures cited are for the UN's Liberia Emergency Humanitarian Action Plan and the "Cote d'Ivoire + 4 Emergency Humanitarian Action Plan". Amounts provided by the appeal are recorded by UN OCHA's Financial Tracking Service. In addition to the funding to the appeals, a further $75m has been provided by donors to other emergency needs in the two countries.
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Because central Nepal is much easier to get to than western Nepal, we have much more bedrock geochronology data from central Nepal with which to compare our detrital data (the same arguments concerning recycling from the Siwaliks applied to sample NAG-12 apply here). Figure 10 shows the outlines of the largest of the drainage basins associated with our samples from central Nepal as well as locations and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages of muscovites from bedrock known to us at the time of this writing. There are 152 bedrock samples, but only 86 of these are from within the Narayani basin. The bedrock samples are far from evenly distributed across the catchment and we can only assume that surface processes have done a good job of averaging the contributions from throughout the basin. At some level of detail we can imagine that sample MO-217, as analyzed, does not faithfully sample all of the bedrock in the catchment because it is biased toward larger muscovites (see preceding). Nevertheless, as shown in Figure 10 , there is nothing problematic about the detrital data in light of the bedrock data and vice versa. Because the Kathmandu-Annapurna region has been studied in such detail (thermochronology, metamorphic petrology, structural geology) the detrital muscovites from the greater Narayani basin seem to offer no additional insight other than to predict that areas within the basin yet to be investigated at the same level of scrutiny as the southern flanks of the Annapurna range are unlikely to reveal a geologic history substantially different than that already suggested for this region. Moreover, the broad consistency of the detrital data to the bedrock data in the Narayani basin (where bedrock data are abundant) gives us confidence in our ability to make broad-brush conclusions, based on detrital data, about the tectonic evolution of the Karnali basin (where bedrock data are sparse).
The final point we discuss about the new data presented here is the strong dissimilarity between the distribution of the age of muscovites from the modern Karnali drainage and the modern Narayani basin ( Fig. 3C ). These catchments are about the same size ( Table 3 ) and are adjacent to each other ( Fig. 1 ), but the ages from the Narayani basin to the east (sample MO-217) are distinctly younger than the ages from the Karnali in the west (sample NAG-12). These differences point to distinct histories of erosion in these regions.
We can consider the causes of erosion in the Himalaya over the past 20 m.y. to be of 2 end-member types. No erosion takes place absent the work of wind and water, but in any tectonically active region, such as the Himalaya, the effects of the deformation of the crust can be of equal or much greater importance; rock deformation results in changes in the elevation and relief of the surface, which in turn can influence the location and magnitude of precipitation.
Are the differences in the muscovite ages from the Karnali and the muscovites from the Narayani due to variations in influence of rock deformation (tectonics) or the influence of the work of wind and water (climate) or some combination thereof? We discuss the possible contributions of these two effects in turn.
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I hope she's right. Somehow, the notion of a galaxy teeming with soulless supercomputers is way creepier than introspective, WALL-E-like beings, or dry, sardonic Qs.
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If you choose to manage in Scotland you should holiday for one year (as per usual) and then select the team that finished rock bottom of this league. If you choose to manage in Holland you should holiday the game for two years as this is when the new relegation/promotion rules come into play. Turkey should be holidayed as per usual and is a new addition to the challenge as it's league reputation is now too large for Gundo's challenge. Saved Games (holidayed): Scotland - Elgin - Saved 1st June Scottish Save - Stranraer - 16th of June Holland - Spain - Saved at Reset Date Portugal - Saved 28th June (Reset 30th) Italy - Saved 28th June (Reset 30th) France - Saved 19th June (Reset 20th) Germany - 1 day before reset date League Reset Dates: Based on FM09, a list of all the league reset dates are shown below. If you have found any changes to this, please let me know. France - 19th JuneGermany - 19th JuneItaly - 29th JunePortugal - 23rd JuneSpain - 10th July Holland - 7th July[/Code][b]The Rules -Playing[/b]Load a game with all the available divisions within the nation you selected only (only one nation is allowed).A large database should be ticked (although you are free to choose a medium or small database option if you wish). Any official SI patch may be used, but no other edited databases can be used for this challenge.You may also go into 'custom' database and add 'top players' from any continent you choose. Attribute masking should be enabled, with no additional players from any nation loaded.The extra levels of detail that you can change while in the game are up to you, as they shouldn't make a difference. It is advised that you select 'Load all Players' for the country you are in. (This has been proven to provide you with over 50% more players in some countries!)Add yourself as an unemployed manager, the details are not important at all, as you will not use this man to manage your club.Go on holiday until the reset date of your chosen nation, this shouldn't take that long, perhaps about an hour. Saving on the day before this date may give you a better choice of teams by reloading the game then going on holiday for one day, I would strongly recommend trying this.Retire your unemployed manager. Add a new manager, the options are up to you but 'past experience' must be set to the lowest possible which is 'Sunday league footballer'. I have no issue with the chosen nationality of your manager - in fact I would suggest that choosing the nationality that fits your chosen country to manage in would be the fairest option.Then choose to take over any club which has been promoted to the bottom playable league of your nation.You must now manage this club to the national top division title, then progress to be champions of Europe. This doesn't have to occur in the same season, just with the same club. Should you be sacked at any point during the game, you may either re-start the challenge with a new team and a new save game, or you may wish to continue on your current save game, taking over a club at the end of the season under the same rules as before.There are no restrictions on parent and feeder clubs, and you must be able to scout a player before you buy them - you don't have to actually scout them, just that the option is available. You may also sign players you can attract to the club via a trial.The use of any external utilities and editors (Such as Genie Scout or FMM) are prohibited.[b]DDT Files[/b] ([i]kindly provided by Lower Leagues Rule)[/i] France Germany Holland Italy Portugal Scotland Spain (updated)The above files, when installed to the correct directory will retain players in the lower league sides and throughout the nation of the file you have downloaded. Here's where they needs to go:Use the C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\data\db\1000\edt folder... There is also a much detailed guide found here[b]The Rules - Posting[/b]Player naming is allowed. (This is a warning for those of you who do not wish to see this)Discussion of tactics is allowed. (This is another warning for those of you who do not wish to see this)Please use screenshots for any aspect of your game you wish to share - this is actively encouraged!When you join the challenge, could you post a screenshot of your manager's profile as soon as you join your club. Progress of your club should be documented using this thread, we want to hear the story of your club all the way through. Please keep us updated, even if you are doing badly.At the end of every season, could everyone post some kind of season review, including at least a screenshot of a league table and the clubs transfer page. If you give this a title in bold it makes it a bit easier to pick out.[b]How to Post a Screenshot[/b] While in FM, press the 'Prt Sc' button (usually next to F12 on your keyboard). Open an image editing program such as Paint and paste the image Save the file as a JPEG Upload the image to an image hosting website such as Photobucket or Imageshack Post the direct Url to the image here.Finally I would like to wish everyone taking on this challenge the best of luck on a long and hard journey to managerial success! FM09's thread was a massive success and huge improvement on the FM08 version in both participation and atmosphere. As core members for both years, [i]myself, LLR and rlipscombe[/i] would like to add that we are here to help for the new challengers and hope everybody that participates contributes considerably to the thread. There is nothing better than getting immersed not only in your own game but providing the encouragement to other people's attempts too. Remember we are all fighting the same battle - to defeat the AI (and uncover fabulous newgens!) - therefore it goes without saying that any form of cheating will be severely chastised. Don't do it! 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MANCHESTER — He never smiled on camera, earning him the nickname of "the Great Stone Face." But Buster Keaton's comedies rocked Hollywood's silent era with laughter throughout the 1920s. Acclaimed for their originality and clever visual gags, and admired for their realistic stories and authentic location shots, Keaton's films remain popular crowd-pleasers today.
See for yourself with a screening of 'Battling Butler' (1926), one of Keaton's landmark feature films, on Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 6 p.m. in historic Carpenter Auditorium at Manchester City Library, 405 Pine St. in downtown Manchester, N.H. Admission is free; donations are encouraged to defray expenses. The program will be accompanied by live music performed by New Hampshire composer Jeff Rapsis.
'Battling Butler' tells the story of pampered Alfred Butler (Keaton) who tries to impress the girl of his dreams (Sally O'Neil) by pretending to be a championship boxer with same name. The masquerade leads to knockout comedy both in and outside the ring, giving Keaton ample opportunity to display his gift for physical and visual comedy.
Keaton, along with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, stands as one of the silent screen's three great clowns. Many critics regard Keaton as the best of all; Roger Ebert wrote in 2002 that "in an extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, (Keaton) worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies." But while making films, Keaton never thought he was an artist, but an entertainer trying to use the then-new art of motion pictures to tell stories and create laughter.
As a performer, Keaton was uniquely suited to silent comedy. Born in 1895, he made his stage debut as a toddler, joining his family's knockabout vaudeville act and learning to take falls and do acrobatic stunts at an early age. He spent his entire childhood and adolescence on stage, attending school for exactly one day.
An entirely intuitive artist, Keaton entered films in 1917 and was quickly fascinated. After apprenticing with popular comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Keaton went on to set up his own studio in 1920, making short comedies that established him as a one of the era's leading talents. A remarkable pantomime artist, Keaton naturally used his whole body to communicate emotions ranging from sadness to surprise. In an era with no special effects, Keaton's acrobatic talents meant he performed all his own stunts.
All those talents are on display in 'Battling Butler,' which holds the distinction of being the top-grossing title of Keaton's silent features.
Jeff Rapsis, a New Hampshire-based silent film musician, said the Keaton features were not made to be shown on television or viewed on home entertainment centers. In reviving them at the Manchester Public Library, organizers aim to show silent film as they were meant to be seen — in high quality prints, on a large screen, with live music, and with an audience.
"All those elements are important parts of the silent film experience," said Rapsis, who improvises accompaniment as a film is screened. "Recreate those conditions, and films of early Hollywood leap back to life in ways that can still move audiences today. They all featured great stories with compelling characters and universal appeal, so it's no surprise that they hold up and we still respond to them."
Rapsis performs on a digital synthesizer that reproduces the texture of the full orchestra and creates a traditional "movie score" sound.
Buster Keaton's 'Battling Butler' will be shown on Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 6 p.m. in Carpenter Memorial Auditorium, Manchester Public Library, 405 Pine St. (603) 624-6550. Admission is free. For more info on the music, visit www.jeffrapsis.com.
Upcoming silent films at the Manchester City Library include:
-- Tuesday, Feb. 5, 6 p.m.: "Love" (1927), starring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert. In a story taken from Tolstoy's novel set in Czarist Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become Vronsky's mistress. Tragedy ensues when Vronsky chooses his military career over Anna.
-- Tuesday, March 5, 6 p.m.: "Conductor 1492" (1924), starring Johnny Hines. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, join obscure comic Johnny Hines in a fast-paced romp about a young lad from the Emerald Isle who comes to "Americky" to make his fortune — but the fun really begins when dear old dad arrives from the Old Sod to help fight his son's battles.
-- Tuesday, April 2, 6 p.m.: "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (1914), starring Charlie Chaplin, Marie Dressler. See the unusual (and unusually crude) feature-length comedy that helped Charlie Chaplin rocket to stardom in his first year of movie-making.


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2011: Did not compete as a freshman.
Off the Cross Country Trail: Majoring in chemical biological engineering with a concentration in women and gender studies … also competes on MIT's indoor and outdoor track and field teams … interned with the Center for Health Disparities and Molecular Medicine Undergraduate Training Program … works in the Center for Perinatal Biology and Advanced Imaging Microscopy Core studying pulmonary hypertension … Dell Scholarship … Edison Scholar.
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Lowgap sisters stole from hospitalized boyfriend's home: deputies
Lowgap sisters stole from hospitalized boyfriend's home: deputies
Two Surry County sisters have been charged on suspicion of stealing items from the home of one of their boyfriends while he was recovering in a hospital.
Brittany Nicole King and Kayla Nicole King, both 22 and from Lowgap, were each charged with felony larceny and felony possession of stolen goods.
Neighbors saw the women carrying electronics and other collectibles out of his home while the man was in the hospital, Surry County deputies said. The items were pawned at a local pawn shop, deputies said.
Cash was taken out of the home as well during last month's incident, deputies said.
Brittany was arrested Monday and held under a $5,000 secured bond. Warrants were still out for Kayla as of Wednesday afternoon.


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BRISTOL, Va. - King College took a pair of softball games at cross-town rival Virginia Intermont College Wednesday thanks to scores of 7-3 and 7-4 to extend the Lady Tornado's winning streak over the Lady Cobras to five in a row.
King gained control of the first game with a six-run fifth inning that saw 10 batters go to the plate. The Lady Tornado used six hits in the inning including the first collegiate home run for Lauren Wilson (Abingdon, Va.), a three-run shot with two outs. Five of the runs were unearned due to an error by centerfielder Krystlie Brenneman on a ball hit by Christy Kooch (Knoxville, Tenn.) with two outs. Another error occurred in the inning to prolong King's at bats.
The six runs in the fifth tripled King's output in that inning in the first 12 games of the season as the Lady Tornado scored two times in 2011 during the fifth inning.
A triple by Cassie Ringstaff (Richlands, Va.) allowed Aubree Hutt (Bristol, Va.) to score the first run of the opening game.
Tiffany Brand (Knoxville, Tenn.) hit her first collegiate home run in the second game.
With the two wins King went to 5-9 on the season while Virginia Intermont has a 2-6 record after the doubleheader.
King welcomes Tusculum (N.C.) College for a Tuesday softball doubleheader, the first on-campus games for the program, at 2 p.m.


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the game rules, there: http://www.urban-rivals.com/gamerules.php?
Which is stronger a 4 star card with two power attack or a 2 star card with two power attack?
Or are they the same?
The same.
The thing that matters are the stats of your card.
I've seen some bonus that say Power # and some that say Attack #.
What is the difference between power and attack?
Your characters have 2 basic stats, Power and Damage. Attack is equal to power * Pillz and represent the amount of chance your character has to beat its opponent. If you have a character with power =3 and you spend 3 pillz on it, its attack will be 9 (3*3) if its opponent has an attack of 5, your guy has 9 chances out of 14 (9 5) to win vs. 5 out of 14 for the other one. Some bonus increase your power of reduces the opponent ones, and other modify attack. Both are nice and allow different things. Power bonus are cool but you need to use pillz, attack bonus allow you to have decent chances to win wihtout having to spend much pillz. I Hope you find this usefull
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Grace & Grit: Women Champions Through the Years
Grace & Grit: Women Champions Through the Years
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Grace & Grit Exhibit
World Golf Hall of Fame Ongoing Exhibit
The World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum officially unveiled its newest exhibition, "Grace & Grit: Women Champions Through the Years." Located in the Museum's Shell Hall opposite the Hall of Fame Member bronzes, the exhibit features golf's greatest female champions spanning eight decades – from the 1940s to today.
As part of the exhibition's opening, 1975 World Golf Hall of Fame Inductee Kathy Whitworth cut the ceremonial ribbon and addressed more than 100 attendees during a question and answer session.
As 88-time LPGA Tour winner, Whitworth and several of her artifacts, including her Titleholders Championship green jacket (presented to the winner of this Major played at Augusta Country Club) are featured prominently in the exhibit.
"Words can't express how exciting it is to see my name alongside some of the game's best like Babe Zaharias, Mickey Wright, Patty Berg and Annika Sorenstam," said Whitworth. "So many great memories surface when I walk through this exhibit and I am humbled to be part of its opening."
"Grace & Grit: Women Champions Through the Years" highlights the careers and achievements of 28 Hall of Fame Members and present-day Major Champions including the 2016 Rolex ANNIKA Major Award winner and current World No.1 player Lydia Ko, Stacy Lewis, Inbee Park and Lorena Ochoa.
Among the surplus of player memorabilia, the exhibit features unique artifacts including Ko's wedges used in the final round of the 2016 ANA Inspiration. Other exhibit highlights include the personal expense report of Marilynn Smith, where she detailed all meals, lodging, and equipment costs from hundreds of golf tournaments. Also on display is Dame Laura Davies' full-size U.S. Women's Open trophy from 1987 when she captured the first of her four Major titles in an 18-hole Tuesday playoff, beating out fellow Hall of Fame Members Ayako Okamoto and JoAnne Carner.
The "Grace & Grit: Women Champions Through the Years" exhibition is open to the public in the World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum. For more information, visit www.worldgolfhalloffame.org.
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Kuenning Nets Honor
NEW BREMEN — Area business professionals met for a luncheon Tuesday afternoon to recognize one of their own.
During the New Bremen Community Improvement Corporation's annual luncheon, Stan Kuenning received the CIC's 2012 Excellence in Business award.
CIC President Chris Fyock presented the award to Kuenning, who started what is now Western Ohio True Value Hardware.
"The Excellence in Business award recognizes a local businessperson who has shown a dedicated interest in the community through participation and leadership in New Bremen and has also represented New Bremen in a positive and a professional manner through business and philanthropic activities conducted in New Bremen and beyond," Fyock said. "The members of the New Bremen CIC would like to recognize Stan Kuenning as the 2012 recipient of the Excellence in Business award. Stan and Donna Mae Kuenning are the first-generation owners of Western Ohio True Value, which is now under second and third generation operations serving in New Bremen, Minster and St. Henry communities."
Fyock noted Kuenning began work at New Bremen Hardware and Supply — out of which Western Ohio True Value was developed — at the age of 11. She went through the history of the store — when it transitioned to Western Ohio Hardware then to Western Ohio True Value, including the transition to its current facility in New Bremen after being two locations in New Bremen and Minster.
Fyock also noted Kuenning's community involvement — including being one of the founding members of the Rotary Club, as well as a contributer to the forming of the New Bremen High School football program and as a volunteer fireman.
"Stan is the man who never says no to anything, and that contributes to the betterment of the New Bremen community," Fyock said. "In appreciation to his commitment to excellence in both his business and personal life, the New Bremen Community Improvement Corporation is pleased to present the 2012 Excellence in Business award to Stan Kuenning."
Kuenning accepted the award from Fyock with his family members present.
"When our honorable mayor Jeff called a number of weeks ago and he said that I had been nominated for this award, I was quite surprised," Kuenning told the crowd gathered at the New Bremen Senior Citizens. "I had no idea, I had never even thought about it. However, I am very very proud to accept this honor and having my picture associated with previous nominees Mr. Dicke and Mr. Schwieterman, who are both good friends and good customers."
Kuenning then shared multiple stories about his experience working in the hardware store since a young age.
Previously during the luncheon, New Bremen Economic Development Director Angela Hamberg noted the village's development highlights of 2011 and noted the importance of family businesses in New Bremen.


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Cyberjet #7 wrote:Anyone spot the NECA Gollum/Smeagol at TRU yet? I'm on the fence, since some of the in-hand pics just look ok. But after this weekend, the Hobbit/LOTR frenzy may take over absolutely.
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Wow! That is so pretty! We rarely see that much snow in the South. If we had that much, we wouldn't be having school on Monday. Love your bulletin board!ReplyDelete
Swimming into Second
Love your adorable turkey bulletin board!ReplyDelete
Smiling and Shining in Second Grade
I LOVE snow!!! But here in western Kentucky it doesn't snow until after Christmas! It's so peaceful! Love the Turkey!ReplyDelete
The bulletin board is just adorable...thanks for the inspiration!! The snow...YIKES! I'm in South Florida and our weather couldn't be more opposite! I am not a fan of cold...but it sure looks beautiful! I have a Turkey Day linky party going on...stop by! THANKS!ReplyDelete
Beach Sand and Lesson Plans
How in the world do you get one of these room moms? Seriously, I'm in year 10 and I've had 1 for 1 semester. I had a woman who would come in for 1 hour per week about 8 years ago, but my partner teacher was super-organized and had about 3 hours worth of coping for her to do. Needless to say, she put up 1 bulletin board for me and then spent the rest of her time at the copy machine.ReplyDelete
Maybe 2nd semester I'll ask for one to see if I can get any responses!
What an adorable turkey! It's so colorful and shows each child's individuality.ReplyDelete
The snow is beautiful! We NEVER see that in sunny AZ.:)
Granny Goes to School
Beautiful picture!ReplyDelete
Your turkey came out adorable. I love the saying that you put on your board.ReplyDelete
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SNOW! That's a beautiful photo. We have gray and rain here in Oregon right now. Want to trade? :) Your turkey is amazing. I love that! :)ReplyDelete
Sarah's First Grade Snippets
Your turkey is ADorAble!!!ReplyDelete
Lory's Page
LOVE your ideas! I made a turkey very similar to yours - I had my kiddos draw things they were thankful for on the feathers. I think it turned out pretty cool! Check it out - I just posted about it on my blog.ReplyDelete
Mr. First Grade
Oh Lindsey your photo is breathtaking! Here in Cali nothing says the holidays like 90 degree weather! Well actually, it did sprinkle yesterday (yippie) but we were in shorts and tank tops early this week. Where is fall!? Or better yet, bring on winter! I want to cozy up in some sweaters and sip a pumpkin spice latte!ReplyDelete
Your turkey is just fab. How awesome is that parent~love those! Thanksgiving blessings to you!
Fluttering Through First Grade
Lindsey what a beautiful picture and cute turkeys to boot. I posted earlier in the week about the fact family turkeys we made for our bulletin board, they turned out adorable. You can check them out at ataleof2firstgrades.blogspot.comReplyDelete
Happy Thanksgiving
Your bulletin board is awesome!! Just another reason why I posted your blog as one that I'm most thankful for! Check out my mention of your blog...head on over to my page!ReplyDelete
Look for "Thank you blogging world"!
Thanks for sharing such wonderful ideas!!


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Premium Rush
Writer/director David Koepp's previous efforts as a screenwriter have helped define modern blockbuster movies. Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man films that put the ''big'' in big screen. As a director, he's taken the same sensibilities and applied them to narrower fields of vision, with intimate spins on horror and comedy in movies like Secret Window and Ghost Town. His latest, Premium Rush, fits the same bill; an immersive chase thriller set in the off-beat world of biker culture, the movie has its simple goals and executes them with a wink-wink attitude. It's a summer action movie through and through, but with sensibilities that make it fresh and quirky. In the doldrums of August, it's exactly the rush one needs.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Wilee, a law-student-turned-bike-messenger who lives for the thrills of a speedy ride. During one run-of-the-mill pick-up at Columbia University, Wilee finds himself in the crosshairs of corrupt cop Bobby Monday (Michael Shannon). Inside the envelope Wilee's been hired to delver to Chinatown is something Detective Monday needs, and he's willing to do anything to get it. No skin off Wilee's nose he has an address and a delivery time, and like a good messenger, he's equally driven to make the drop.
Premium Rush quickly kicks off its extended action set piece and never lets up, Koepp only occasionally stepping back in time to unravel backstory and up the stakes. Wilee's girlfriend Vanessa (Dania Ramirez), also a bike messenger, is the roommate of Nima (Jamie Chung), a Chinese student who is shipping the sealed MacGuffin downtown. For her, it's life or death, and Koepp wisely underplays the motivations ,both to downplay its over-the-top nature and keep the stunts in focus. Monday has his own issues to contend with, and it gives Shannon the perfect material to chew up. Before chasing Wilee, Monday suffers from a gambling and violence problem, and while it drives the character to pursue the package, it's really just a great excuse for Shannon to go absolutely bonkers. Somewhere beyond Nic Cage and Al Pacino exists Shannon's turn and it's a hoot.
Gordon-Levitt balances him out as an engaging presence, even while zipping through gridlocks and shifting his eyes for ''Bike-O-Vision'' (Wilee's accident-avoiding, stylized Spidey sense). He spends most of his time interchanged with professional bike riders who make the two-wheeled maneuvers work, but it's seamless. After an hour and a half of bikes pop-a-wheeling over taxis, skidding under semi-trailer trucks, and pulling off cycle parkour in a multileveled NYPD impound, the action tends to get a bit repetitive how much can you do on a bike? but Koepp's kinetic directing keeps the movie zippy and the tone loose. Wilee's entire adventure feels like one big trick. Thankfully, it avoids the crash and burn.
What do you think? Tell Matt Patches directly on Twitter @misterpatches and read more of his reviews on Rotten Tomatoes!
Hollywood.com rated this film 3 1/2 stars.


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